Felony sentencing for possession — Are you high?

And now a word from the ACLU (yes, I am a card-carrying member):

As we watch the state budget crisis deepen, one of the most wasteful and harmful policies of our state government – felony sentences for simple drug possession – remains in place. We are spending unnecessary millions to incarcerate people who pose no threat to public safety.

Sentencing reform is the way to bring prison spending back in line with other priorities – like public schools and universities, social services, and drug treatment.

That’s actually from the ACLU of Northern California, but the point is the same for anywhere that locks up people for minor drug offenses, like Georgia.

We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County. Spend that tax money on schools instead.

-jsq

One thought on “Felony sentencing for possession — Are you high?”

  1. Acevedodante

    I can’t think of anything more wasteful of human life and capital than the incarceration of “non-violent offenders”. Metal cages are for intransigent and vicious beasts not people who have substance issues or folks using substances responsibly that are deemed “illegal” by the leviathan. The “justice” system reeks of hypocrisy, we allow big alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals to poison and kill with impunity while someone is stripped of liberty (arguably life), for committing no external harm to society. What happened to the Hippocratic oath or Mill’s “harm principal” applied to justice?

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